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436 So. 2d 203 - DC v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019

16 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]t is clear from Section 784.03 that any intentional touching of another person against such person's will is technically a criminal battery.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]his case presents a perfect example of a disturbing societal proclivity towards settling all disputes through resort to a severely overburdened judicial system.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.